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September 21, 2007

Was It the Article on Whistling Fever?

091907_tin_whistle.jpgThis week, Boston Magazine blog spread the word that the Globe had hired Veronica Chao, editor of the Improper Bostonian to helm the Globe's Sunday City Weekly section.

The City Weekly section is intended to be a fizzy cultural spread about the region, but a recent story on how Peter, Bjorn & John's "Young Folks" started a whistling frenzy amongst the hipsters might have been a bit much. Gawker seized on the story as if it were a slab of juicy, dripping raw meat, and Bostonist was, frankly, puzzled, as we hadn't heard anyone whistling "Young Folks," and we'd been in clubs where it was played.

What Chao will do with the Weekly is anyone's guess. We're expecting headbutts between Improper style and Globe's more middle-of-the-road approach. Joe Keohane described Chao as an "icy editress," and if she has half that level of frostiness, maybe she can spank the City Weekly into shape. Any kind of shape.

Image of Tin Whistles album cover from Amazon.


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